Posted on 01/17/2013 2:20:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Via the Daily Caller, a teaser for his appearance on "Hannity" later tonight. If I didn't know better, I'd say that a guy who just visited Israel and is now talking about blocking executive overreach on gun-grabbing just might be running for president in 2016.
The bill will go nowhere but conservatives will appreciate the gesture:
“I’m told Sen. Rand Paul will introduce language within hours, within hours, to call for the nullification and prohibition of funding for the president’s executive actions announced today and possibly even using the federal courts to nullify and defund some of the things that he plans on doing,” [Fox News host Eric] Bolling said.
[A] Capitol Hill source told TheDC that Paul’s legislation is expected to do three things: nullify Obama’s executive orders, defund them and ask the Senate to file a court challenge to them.
At the very least, if he can figure out a way to bring this to the floor, it’ll be fun to see how Democrats whose seats are up next year will vote on it. Word on the Hill is that Reid might not even force a vote on the assault-weapons ban lest it prove too difficult for red-state Dems’ reelection campaigns. (According to a CNN poll released today, the recent surge of support for gun control is already starting to fade.) Will Mark Begich? Mary Landrieu? Heidi Heitkamp? Watch the video of her below from a local newscast yesterday (via the Washington Free Beacon) not only sounding sour on Obama’s gun recommendations but going so far as to accuse the White House of having an agenda unrelated to school shootings. Which, of course, is true.
Exit question: How many doctors are really going to follow the White House’s recommendations to talk to their patients about gun safety? I know they do get intrusive on occasion, and it’s a legit topic in the case of a patient who seems genuinely mental, but doctors must realize what a hot button this subject is for many people. Why risk alienating a patient and having him take his business elsewhere by trying to have “the talk” with him about guns? How many doctors know enough about guns themselves to even have that talk? This seems like a golden example of the White House floating an idea that sounds conscientious — it isn’t, it’s just the AMA’s attempt to leach some extra federal money — but which will be roundly ignored. The nicest thing that can be said for it is that it’s not remotely the most laughworthy recommendation offered by Obama this morning.
Sheesh, a long list of people on antidepressants.
Let’s ban depression.
Actually Ron Paul’s foreign policy stance makes more sense everyday: fix the problems at home first.
The atheistic communism at home is far more dangerous than the atheistic communism in Asia.
Thanks for the heads up. This is potentially disturbing, depending upon the compromises.
If they start by locking and enforcing our borders with no compromise whatsoever, I'd be willing to hear the rest. Otherwise, no sale.
>Obama deserves to be impeached for his illegal, backdoor amnesty.<
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There is no one with enough brass among the congresscretins who dares to investigate something simple like Obama’s eligibility, much less to initiate impeachment proceedings.
Sadly enough the “The atheistic communism at home” is protected by the First Amendment and the ACLU will see to it that it will thrive.
To my thinking, Rand takes a more common sense approach to foreign policy than his dad did, but both make more sense than what we are doing now.
The comments Rand Paul recently made in Israel are more in line with what I'd like to see for our foreign policy and maybe a bit closer to what George Washington had in mind.
So, you are saying that Rand and Ron Paul have heated disagreements over foreign policy at family gatherings?
The text of each bill should be posted here, word for word, and every vote.
Heated disagreements over our foreign policy? I have no knowledge. It's possible, but I just don't know.
I think that issue had something to do with why his father's supporters didn't care much for him, in addition to his not supporting his father's candidacy during the primary.
So not only are liberals "freeing" nutcases to roam the streets drugged with virtually worthless "happy pills" with and definitely destructive side effects, virtually every one of these cases occurred in a "gun-free zone"!
So we conservatives are all supposed to sit down and shut up while they implement their "solutions" (designed to get us killed because their pet criminals are not going to pay any heed to said "solutions," and employing hordes of Democrat bureaucrats to feed off the crimes) because those disasters were supposedly our fault, because we believe in people exercising their right to armed self-defense... except that the crimes occurred where people were NOT permitted to defend themselves.
So here we are, rubbing our hands and hoping that our "leaders" don't sell out too much. Yet even though liberals manufactured these "crises," not a one of our supposed "leaders" even attempts to hold them accountable for setting up the whole thing.
Have I got that about right?
Agreed. Rand has the best aspects his father had without the psycho baggage his dad seemed to have.
Well then being able to protect ourselves with our Constitutionally protected arms is a more pressing matter then, isn't it?
This is all a distraction from our real problems, including illegal immigration. It is easy to demonstrate a spine on the gun issue because it is a winner. The Reps are being stampeded on amnesty in the false hope that they will somehow get more of the Hispanic and immigrant vote. They will not and will end up legalizing more Dem voters.
I am a strong believer in the 2nd Amendment and an NRA member, but I am not as concerned about Obama's charade on gun control as I am about our dire fiscal condition and the lack of the Reps desire to confront the Dems on it. The latest example is the passage of the pork-laden Sandy bill of about $60 billion, which is approximates the same amount of revenue raised by the taxing the rich hike to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Obama is employing a Cloward-Piven strategy of manufacturing all of these crises to distract from what he is really doing to transform this country, e.g., the implementation of another huge entitlement program--Obamacare. He has the Reps running around trying to stamp out multiple small fires while he employs a grand strategy to destroy this country. Immigration, legal and illegal, has changed the demographics of this country, which will make the Dems the permanent majority party. Obama, a failed President, was reelected, which demonstrates we have reached a tipping point in this country politically.
More good info here:
How are guns being
used by citizens
in America each year?
Example: 200,000
Times a year women use a gun to defend against SEXUAL ABUSE4
Tsk, tsk. You have no idea how cruel that is. Think of all the police officers, doctors, nurses, rape crisis counselors, lawyers, judges, clerks, bailiffs, prison guards, parole officers, job-placement counselors, psychologists, and welfare case workers those women deprived of a job...
Have you no compassion?
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